“Given the embarrassment of the AI hallucinations and mistakes of law in the two TROs and the preliminary injunction, it would be an understandable—though obviously unjust—temptation for the judge to want to find a way to prove that, even with correct law and fact, his initial view should prevail,” Judge Jerry Smith wrote for the appellate court.
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The Trump administration has abandoned its effort to defend challenged changes to the student-loan forgiveness program, a move that materially shifts the litigation even though the key district-court rulings were issued earlier. By stepping back from the appeal fight, the government is effectively leaving in place lower-court decisions concluding that the U.S. Department of Education likely exceeded its statutory authority.
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Judges’ elections often lack vital candidate information, leaving voters uninformed. The Trellis Judicial Voter Guide consolidates judges’ data to empower voters, aligning with Trellis’s mission to enhance legal accessibility.
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Everything by Tuesday.Everything by Tuesday. The man with the microphone has a car outside.Where to?Everything by Tuesday.Put a little here. Leave a little there. Keep something loose for the turn.One for the thing we came to do. One for the thing we found. One we can put down.Find the pocket. Leave room in it.Accelerate reversible learning. Pace irreversible commitment.You can move in that. You can move.The committee bought a table. The…
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A federal judge in Miami has ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition by Dec. 11 in his $10 billion defamation suit against the BBC, moving the case into a more consequential discovery phase and raising the stakes for both sides.

The lawsuit centers on a documentary-related dispute involving edited footage from Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 speech. Trump…
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Every fact present.Every citation real.The machine returned a clean sentence.The two words that mattered had become one word.Tell me more.It gave the word a definition.Tell me more.It gave the definition a heading.Tell me more.Under the heading, the difference was difficult to hear.Close enough.Almost the same.For present purposes, interchangeable.The first time, a hesitation. The second time, a qualification. The third time—We have removed the repetition.Somebody had…
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The dog barked too smoothly.That was the trouble. I asked about the missing question and got a beautiful account of its disappearance. Better than the question, in some ways. Easier to publish.Keep the loop running.I asked for the question back. The answer got louder. More certain. Picked up a little vocabulary from my objection and fed it back through the…
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On Sept. 1, LexisNexis and EvenUp, an AI platform for personal injury lawyers, announced a forthcoming integration by which EvenUp’s customers could access legal insights and agentic AI in LexisNexis Protégé directly from within the EvenUp platform.That integration is now live, and last week the two companies gave me a demo of how it works.With the integration, EvenUp customers…
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Reports of the demise of the billable hour have been greatly exaggerated, at least at smaller law firms.With apologies to Mark Twain, that is the central finding of a new report on billing and payment practices at small and midsized law firms. It finds that firms billing solely by the hour outnumber firms billing solely by flat fee by nearly…
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